Amin Amini, MD, MS, FAANS is a world-class neurosurgeon, leading the Maryland / DC area in developing general, minimially-invasive, and micro-neurosurgery.
Dr. Amini received a Bachelors and Masters degree in Neurobiology and Cell Biology at the University of Maryland. He obtained a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and completed a neurosurgery residency and chief residency at the University of Utah. There, he made significant contributions to the neurosurgical literature on malignant tumors of the brain and spine, traumatic cervical spine injuries, and endoscopic spine surgeries, with more than 40 scientific papers, abstracts, and chapters published in prestigious neurosurgical journals and textbooks.
After residency, he moved back to the Maryland / DC area and has been providing state-of-the-art neurosurgical care since 2008, treating people with a wide variety of neurological conditions. From 2008-2011, he served as the Medical Director of the Neurosciences Program at Holy Cross Hospital. From 2010-2018, he served as the Medical Director of Neurosurgery at UM Prince George Hospital, one of the busiest trauma centers in the DC metropolitan area. In 2013, he was appointed the Medical Director of Neurosurgery at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital and Washington Adventist Hospital, where he leads the development of a neurosurgery program to better serve the needs of this growing community.
Since 2012, Dr. Amini has consistently been voted a Washingtonian Top Doc by his peers. He is board-certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and the Washington Academy of Neurosurgery.
In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Dr. Nadia Hashimi (a pediatrician and world-renowned writer), and four children.
Dr. Henderson Jr. returned to Maryland in early 2024 to join the Center for Brain and Spine with the mission to provide compassionate and excellent neurosurgical care for the people of suburban and Southern Maryland. His career has blended academic expertise in neurosurgical oncology and global neurosurgery with a broad training exposure requisite for meeting the needs of his fellow Marylanders in healthcare settings accessible to the community.
After growing up in Prince George’s County, he graduated with High Distinction from the University of Virginia, taught elementary students in Western China, and then returned to Charlottesville to earn his Medical Degree. He completed a neurosurgical residency at the Medical University of South Carolina, which included a six-month appointment as a Neurosurgery Research Fellow at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, under Dr. Steven Brem. After residency, he served as a Neurosurgical Instructor and a Fellow to Dr. Theodore Schwartz in Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine in Manhattan.
Dr. Henderson Jr. then accepted an invitation with his wife and children to move overseas to rural Kenya. He joined Dr. William R. Copeland IV in training Kenyan neurosurgery residents through the Pan African Academy for Christian Surgeons, supported at Tenwek Mission Hospital by World Medical Mission, a ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. During this time in Kenya, he was appointed Global/Volunteer Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery from Loma Linda University, completed neurosurgery board examinations as a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa, and co-led the Tenwek neurosurgery program in graduating its first Kenyan neurosurgery resident, Dr. Emmanuel Wafula. Dr. Henderson Jr. has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed manuscripts (click below) and currently serves the role of Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Today, Dr. Henderson Jr. delights in working alongside Dr. Amini to provide world-class surgery with a patient-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment that utilizes the most current and least-invasive technologies.
Farook J. Kidwai, MD, FAANS is a highly regarded neurosurgeon with more than 40 years of experience providing outstanding patient care.
Dr. Kidwai obtained his medical degree from King Edward Medical University in Pakistan. He then completed a general surgery residency training Company of Mary Hospital in Illinois and a neurological surgery residency training at SUNY at Buffalo in New York.
He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Amanda L. Panfil, PA-C is a highly skilled surgery physician assistant with more than a decade of experience.
She received a Bachelors degree in Biochemistry at the University of Rochester and obtained her Master of Health Science degree and physician assistant training at Drexel University.
Amanda is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and is a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA).
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